Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... published ( 1701 ) in his thirty - fourth year2 . After its appearance , paying a visit to some bishop , he heard mention made of the new pamphlet that Burnet had written , replete with political knowledge . When he seemed to doubt ...
... published ( 1701 ) in his thirty - fourth year2 . After its appearance , paying a visit to some bishop , he heard mention made of the new pamphlet that Burnet had written , replete with political knowledge . When he seemed to doubt ...
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... published A Proposal for correcting , improving , and ascertaining the English Tongue , in a Letter to the Earl of Oxford3 , written without much knowledge of the general nature of language , and without any accurate enquiry into the ...
... published A Proposal for correcting , improving , and ascertaining the English Tongue , in a Letter to the Earl of Oxford3 , written without much knowledge of the general nature of language , and without any accurate enquiry into the ...
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... published ( 1712 ) The Conduct of the Allies , ten days before the Parliament assembled . The purpose was to persuade the nation to a peace2 , and never had any writer more success . The people , who had been amused with bonfires and ...
... published ( 1712 ) The Conduct of the Allies , ten days before the Parliament assembled . The purpose was to persuade the nation to a peace2 , and never had any writer more success . The people , who had been amused with bonfires and ...
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... published . It was after his death in the hands of Lord Orrery and Dr. Kings . A book under that title was published , with Swift's * ' The common people were taught to look upon him as a Jacobite ; and they threw stones and dirt at him ...
... published . It was after his death in the hands of Lord Orrery and Dr. Kings . A book under that title was published , with Swift's * ' The common people were taught to look upon him as a Jacobite ; and they threw stones and dirt at him ...
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... Published while the Committee of Inquiry was sitting in London ' -i . e . between April 9 and July 24. Craik , pp . 348 , 351. Works , vi . 339 . No. 2 , Aug. 4 , 1724. Ib . p . 353 . No. 3 , Aug. 25. Ib . p . 377 . No. 4 , Oct. 23. Ib ...
... Published while the Committee of Inquiry was sitting in London ' -i . e . between April 9 and July 24. Craik , pp . 348 , 351. Works , vi . 339 . No. 2 , Aug. 4 , 1724. Ib . p . 353 . No. 3 , Aug. 25. Ib . p . 377 . No. 4 , Oct. 23. Ib ...
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